Mayor Bill de Blasio: Republicans can’t dump Donald Trump

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday that he doesn’t believe leaders of the national GOP can “dump Trump” as their presidential nominee, citing the large number of primaries and party delegates candidate Trump has won.

The Democratic mayor, a supporter of Hillary Clinton, said an effort by establishment Republicans to stop Trump’s nomination “would create a huge backlash” among more conservative members “because unfortunately the Republican Party has created a very negative dynamic within itself.”

De Blasio spoke about national politics at an unrelated news conference in Brooklyn.